Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Full 3 minute text version of testimony submitted to the MD House Judiciary Committee by Augustus Alzona 3-5-2013

March 5, 2013

I am Augustus Alzona, a
humble immigrant from Asia, a Maryland resident taxpayer for over four decades,
a business owner, citizen activist and community organizer from the limousine
liberal occupied territory of Montgomery County.I am also a former, two term member of the
county’s Committee on Hate / Violence.

Mr. Chairman, honorable members
of the Judiciary Committee, I urge you to vote down these gun control bills - especially
for the following two reasons.

1.They are inherently racist in nature and
application.

2.They are anti-Catholic, anti-Christian.

No.
1 – They are inherently racist in nature and application.

During the infamous 1992 L.A. (Los Angeles)
Riots, after the LAPD (Los Angeles Police Dept.) withdrew from the south central
district, barbaric hordes of thugs assaulted and killed innocent civilians, as
well as looted and burned down several local minority-owned businesses.The decent law-abiding working people of
South Central were basically abandoned by the police who had withdrawn to
protect the more affluent areas of Hollywood, Beverly Hills, etc.

When the well-armed lawless
thugs attacked “Koreatown” they were prevented from reaping mayhem and plunder
there by my fellow Asian American businessmen wielding so-called assault
weapons and other semi-automatic, homeland security devices with high-capacity
magazines.

These gun control bills
would inhibit, if not outright ban, my fellow law-abiding Asian Americans from
possessing those types of homeland security devices, especially those high-capacity
magazines, which are needed when facing multiple assailants carrying same.

No. 2 – These violate my
human rights as a Catholic Christian.

As pertains to self-defense
and weapons, I hereby quote from a recent translation from Latin, of relevant
passages from the Justinian Code, a legal pillar of Western Civilization.(Footnote 1)

“”I. SELF DEFENSE

Roman law was very
protective of the individual’s right to defend himself and his property from
violence, whether offered by a thief on a darkened highway or a soldier in
search of plunder.

A provision attributed to
the late fourth century A.D. reads:

We grant to all persons the
unrestricted power to defend themselves (liberam resistendi cunctis tribuimus
facultatem), so that it is proper to subject anyone, whether a private person
or a soldier, who trespasses upon fields at night in search of plunder, or lays
by busy roads plotting to assault passers-by, to immediate punishment in
accordance with the authority granted to all (permissa cuicumque licentia
dignus ilico supplicio subiugetur). Let him suffer the death which he
threatened and incur that which he intended (Codex Justinianus (“CJ”)
3.27.1).

The legislator then explains
the rationale for this provision, stating, “For it is better to meet the danger
at the time, than to obtain legal redress (vindicare) after one’s death.”

And he concludes:

We therefore permit you to
seek your own revenge (ultionem) and we join to this decree those situations
which a legal judgment would be too late to remedy (quod serum est punire
iudicio).

Thus, let no one shrink from
facing (parcat) a soldier, whom it is fitting to challenge with a weapon
(telo), just as it is fitting to challenge a thief (A.D. 391).

This provision recognizes
not only an individual’s right to self defense, but explicitly permits the
private use of a weapon (telum) for the purpose of countering an assailant as
well.“”

These bills severely
inhibit, as well as subvert my human rights, as a Catholic Christian, to
self-defense as codified in Codex Justinianus (Justinian Code) – human rights laws
which even predate the U.S. Constitution and the founding of this country.

Please vote down all bills
which inhibit my constitutional and civil rights.

Respectfully submitted,

Augustus AlzonaPersonal info redacted

Footnote 1 - “The Roman
Legal Treatment of Self Defense and the Private Possession of Weapons in the
Codex Justinianus” by Will Tysse